Well, this is becoming a bit of a book blog, but I'm okay with that. There's a book blogger group called Top 5 Wednesday, where you can write or vlog about different prompt that the group gives. I thought this week's prompt was especially great, because it's the week of Thanksgiving. I absolutely love this time of year, and I think Thanksgiving is...
I think most people who know me know that I read a crap ton. I think I've read about 150 books this year, and people always ask me for recommendations so I thought I would give my top 5 books of 2015 (so far!) Hopefully you will find something good for read, and it will be fun for me to narrow down my...
I'm the kind of person that wants to do everything now. The saying, take it a day at a time, is really hard for me. I look to the future a lot, even when I was a kid. I thought being a grown up looked so cool, and I had so many plans for the future. I recently learned that I can't do...
Got to check another item off the list! It's not really a fall thing, but I wanted to run a race! I recruited my sister to run with me, and we did The Great Pumpkin Run. We got a nice shirt, a pumpkin and some cider after the race. Even though the cider was in a tiny little cup...it was still a fun...
I like to think of September as fall; so to me, that means that fall is officially here. Cue pumpkin everything! I've mentioned in previous posts that I like to make to-do lists and bucket lists; basically anything to keep myself organized and on task. So now that it's fall, I decided to make a fall bucket list, and I got started on...
Ahhh! It's already September, and in my mind, that means summer is pretty much over. I haven't been posting a crazy amount this month, mostly because I've been trying to soak up the last bits of summer that I could. I've been watching, reading and trying some new things this month, so here are my August favorites! Naked 3 I took the plunge...
I think a huge contributor to happiness is having things to look forward to. I find that when the day in, day out routine of life takes over, things just get a little dull. I think this started for me when I was younger, and my mom would always plan things for us or our family to do, and she would get excited...
When I was younger, I was very involved in sports. I feel like I was constantly being driven to practice or games. After high school, when I stopped playing any sports competitively, I felt a bit of a void. The college I went to offered free fitness classes for students, so I thought trying a couple of them would be a great idea....
Since I feel like I see these on blogs all the time (and my friend Nicole did one last month :) ), I wanted to do one as well! I figure five is a good number, especially since I can't think of too many. First off, is a place! Can places be counted in this? Oh well, I'm counting it. I went to...
I feel like one of the big struggles for someone who starts their first 40 hour a week, full time job, is the management of time. It's hard. It's really, really hard, and it's hard not to feel overwhelmed with the fact that suddenly your job is taking up a huge amount of your time. I've held other jobs, but they were always...
Like most people, I am sometimes scared of the future. Especially now that I am out of school, where I think the structure of your future is more defined...you know what you have to do in school; do your homework, go to class and study for your tests. Suddenly you graduate, and you're basically thrown on your ass. I was lucky enough to...
I was very tempted to write 'Canadia,' but that's only because I kept referring to it as that during our drive. No idea why. Anyway, I'm currently writing this in Canada! If I look up, I can see Niagara falls from out our hotel room window. It's gorgeous. Before I get to that though, let me tell you about our trip so far!...
When I was nine years old, my third grade teacher told my mom in a parent teacher conference that I would be the next J.K. Rowling (or the first female president). Those are definitely big words for a third grader to hear, but it does mark the first time in my life anyone paid attention to my writing. As a child, I was...
I'm a big fan of getting rid of stuff I don't use/like/need anymore and organizing. I've always been a neat person, and so mess just bothers me. Like right now, I'm thinking about my two desk drawers and how I accidentally untangled a phone charger cord this morning, but I was late for work so I just ran out the door without putting...
I love all holidays, but the Fourth is definitely up there as one of my favorites. There's just something about taking a day off in the middle of summer, relaxing on the lake, and watching some fireworks that really appeals to me. And while there is a deeper meaning to the Fourth that I also respect, I also just really like sparklers. But...
Well, let's kick off this thing with talking about one of the most stressful parts of a journalist's week and/or life: PRODUCTION DAY!!! My first experience with production was with my college newspaper. I was on the online side of the newspaper, so I actually didn't have to do much to do with production nights until my senior year. I'm actually kind of...
Hey, hi, hello! Welcome to this little blog project...thing. I've had a couple of these and they never seem to pan out, but I'm optimistic that this one will stick! You're probably wondering about the title of the blog, which I have to admit, it came off the top of my head. I'm a 22-year-old journalist, and before I graduated college I was...
